Autism Behavioural Interventional Research in low-resource settings: Overcoming prevailing challenges ­ an Asian perspective

•An overview of a proposed interventional model deliverable at primary care, non-specialist setting and possible methods to address economic, ethical and cultural concerns in behavioural interventional research have been discussed.•Developing interventional model deliverable at primary care level can improve accessibility and curtail delay in initiating interventions.•Addressing parental stress and coping from a cultural perspective should be considered an essential and foremost component of parent mediated behavioural interventions.

Acceleration of Autism interventional research is evident in high-income countries (HIC), however, remains limited in low-resource settings. Though studies have established efficacy of behavioural interventions for Autism spectrum disorder, conducting behavioural interventional research in low resource setting poses unique challenges in economic, ethical and cultural facets. This brief communication discusses the prevailing challenges in low resource setting in designing and testing the efficacy of behaviour interventional model that is generalizable to primary care settings.